M.Phil., United States History, May 2006Major Field: United States History; Minor Field: Gender and American Literature

M.A., United States History, May 2004Masters Thesis: “Southern Daughters, Up North: The New York Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Creation of New York’s Southern Community, 1865-1921”

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA

B.A., History and Film, Summa Cum Laude, Honors Program, May 2001Scholar of the College Thesis: “Right Wing Reformers: the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women, 1910-1920”

RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY

Vice President for Curatorial Affairs and Collections, November 2018 to presentDirector of Public History, February 2014 to November 2018Public Historian, March 2011 to February 2014Oversee exhibitions, collections, public history projects, as well as the institution’s historical content and interpretation across departments

Plan, direct, and execute multi-departmental public and oral history projects in conjunction with library and archives, education, and public programming departments

Curate physical and digital exhibitions on topics of Brooklyn, New York, and American history

Oversee the stewardship and cultivation of BHS’s collections, including library and archives, art and artifacts, and oral history

Plan and manage departmental budget

Collaborate with advancement staff to cultivate individual, corporate, and foundation funders; write grants for exhibitions, collections, public history projects, and oral history projects

Co-produce and co-host BHS’s podcast, Flatbush + Main

Research and write online curriculum guides for K-12 and postsecondary audiences

Conceive and execute local partnerships with external cultural and educational organizations

Design, write, and give regular public presentations and walking tours on Brooklyn history and BHS collections for the public, students, potential funders, corporate groups, and local community groups

Communicate with press on historical topics and institutional projects

Manage department and project budgets

Supervise twelve staff members

Serve as liaison between the scholarly community and BHS

Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY

Co-Director, Students and Faculty in the Archives, March 2011 to February 2014. Designed and ran Students and Faculty in the Archives (SAFA), a three-year, U.S. Department of Education FIPSE-funded postsecondary project. Co-founded and edited TeachArchives.org, an educational resource resulting from the SAFA project that features sample exercises, articles, best practices, and documentation on teaching students in the archives.

Made regular presentations on the project at conferences and universities

Liaised with National Partners from institutions outside New York City to disseminate findings and implement similar programs across the country|

Collaborated with independent evaluators and worked with development on fundraising initiatives

Conceived and ran annual full-time summer fellowship for select undergraduates, resulting in independent student research projects and a student-staff-curated exhibit

Conceived, edited, and project managed the creation of TeachArchives.org

New-York Historical Society, New York, NY

Assistant Historian for Special Projects, January 2010 to May 2011. Project curator for New York Rising, the Historical Society’s new permanent exhibition, which opened November 2011. The exhibit features the Society’s most iconic objects in a grand salon-style wall and employs a cutting-edge, non-linear, multimedia installation to tell the overlapping stories of New York in the Early Republic.

Oversaw all research and wrote exhibition text, which included over 500 pages of content for rich multimedia installation

Coordinated with several museums and archives

Liaised with exhibitions, art curatorial, and multimedia design teams

Offered regular presentations on the progress of the project to staff, board, advisors, and funders

Big Onion Walking Tours, New York, NY

Licensed New York City Tour Guide, March 2007 to present, specializing in the social and cultural history of New York City. Walking tours led include “Immigrant New York,” “The Financial District,” “Chinatown,” “Greenwich Village,” “Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn Heights,” and “Fort Greene.”

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New York, NY

Assistant Curator, November 2007 to March 2008. In partnership with RBML archivist, conceived, researched, designed, and implemented 1968: Columbia In Crisis, an exhibition that analyzed the circumstances and the legacies of the 1968 student occupation of Columbia University’s campus.

New-York Historical Society, New York, NY

Research Assistant, May 2007 to May 2008. Conducted research at N-YHS, Columbia University, and New York Public Libraries for Grant and Lee in War and Peace, French Founding Father: Lafayette’s Return to Washington’s America, and other exhibitions.

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New York, NY

Provost’s Graduate Student Fellow, Summer 2006. Gained expertise in the library’s holdings by researching and writing a series of articles on the social, cultural, political, and institutional history of Columbia University.

Blueberry Hill Productions, Watertown, MA

Production Assistant and Assistant Editor for the Peabody Award-winning documentary Tupperware!, September 2001 to August 2003. Aired on the 2003-2004 season of PBS’s American Experience.

Researched potential interviewees and conducted pre-interviews

Conducted historical and film research in various archives

Arranged travel and accommodations for all production trips

Created and maintained FileMaker Pro image and interview databases

Assisted in editing using the AVID editing program

Fundraised through outreach to potential donors across the country

Co-wrote PBS website content.

Connecticut Public Television, Hartford, CT

Production Assistant, Summer 2001. Conducted research and aided in production and postproduction on Connecticut and Its Cities, an independent documentary charting the history of Connecticut cities.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Founded and co-edited TeachArchives.org, a robust educational resource that lays out a pioneering approach to teaching document analysis to students in the archives. The site features an innovative teaching philosophy, classroom-tested sample exercises, best practices for crafting in-archives student exercises or designing similar programs, and extensive documentation of Students and Faculty in the Archives, the three-year project that led to this website.

Managed the work of sixteen contributors and edited all submitted content

Regularly present and offer workshops on the TeachArchives.org philosophy, best practices, and educational project design.

Co-Director, Students and Faculty in the Archives, Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY, March 2011-February 2014

Designed and ran Brooklyn Historical Society’s landmark post-secondary education project, Students and Faculty in the Archives (SAFA), which partnered with eighteen faculty from three Brooklyn colleges to develop primary source-based curricula that instills research and critical thinking skills in early undergraduates.

Collaborated with an interdisciplinary group of local faculty to identify primary sources and develop syllabi and primary source exercises

"Teachers' Lounge with Julie Golia." Workshop at To Search: Investigations of the Virtual and Material Lives of Objects, RISD Museum and Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University, September 26, 2015.

“An American Family Grows in Brooklyn.” Presented at Dutch Colonial Brooklyn: An Intimate Glimpse Brooklyn Historical Society, New York, NY, April 8, 2015.

“Why to Bring Students to the Archives (and How)” and “Designing an Effective Instruction Program.” Lecture and workshop as part of a National Speakers Series. University of Georgia, Athens, GA, March 30-31, 2015.

“An American Family Grows in Brooklyn.” Community Board 2 Meeting, Brooklyn, NY, April 11, 2012.

“From Earplugs to Warships: Exploring the History of Business in Brooklyn.” Co-presented with Elizabeth Call. Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY, December 1, 2011.

“Gendered Ways of Seeing.” Guest lecturer for “Introduction to Women Studies,” Alice Kessler-Harris and Neferti Tadiar, professors. Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Columbia University, New York, NY, October 2008.

“Southern Daughters, Up North: The New York Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Creation of New York’s Southern Community, 1865-1921.” Southern Historical Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2005.